Earth Magnetic Field

A non-interactive animating globe showing an approximation of the Earth's aurora.

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This application makes use of the following libraries

ArcGIS API for JavaScript by Esri
- Esri’s JavaScript library for mapping and analysis.
Bootstrap by Twitter Inc
- A useful and comprehensive UI framework. This application leveraged a subset of bootstrap pertaining to buttons and input elements.
jQuery by jQuery Foundataion Inc.
- A JavaScript framework for DOM manipulation and a foundation for many other frameworks.
three.js by Ricardo Cabello (aka Mr.doob)
- JavaScript 3D library.

External Renderers

This application is making use of Esri's external renderer to execute low level webgl commands.